The Adventures of Roberta X

     Our scene opens in the present-day, renovated, galley kitchen of a 1920s plan-built home on the outskirts of a somewhat-artsy neighborh...

     These past few weeks, I get a call or text every morning around seven, to tell me if there will be any work aloft or not that day.   ...

    The newsies and Internetters seem a bit excited over the upcoming State Of The Union speech.  Me, not so much.      Historically, I...

or They Do What With Zucchini?      I've been seeing them in the produce section at our corner grocer's for a few months now: ...

     I've been reading Ingathering , the complete collection Zenna Henderson's short stories about The People , a group of very huma...

     I've been reading Lawrence Block's Telling Lies For Fun And Profit , a collection of his Writer's Digest columns that Sue ...

     Tamara was given a bag of Tanzanian Peaberry coffee for Christmas and we recently discovered it was ground coffee, not beans.       W...

     If you grew up reading science fiction, she was always there.  Her worlds were not usual sort of thing and neither were her words.   ...

     Some time ago, after a (non-Tamara) friend had bemoaned the impenetrable voodoo futility of being asked to submit an outline before wri...

     No sooner did we get out the colander polish than Congress decided to keep the Federal government running for another three weeks.  Jus...

     The Federal government has shut down and only the "essential functions" of the IRS will be running, which I am sure you will ...

     Tamara has kept this handy through several previous Federal government shutdowns.      Preparedness!